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An Agile Triple Play: Business Process Re-Engineering meets SOA meets Large Scale Agile

This experience report will address the volatility, challenges and solutions implemented within a Fortune 500 Order to Delivery manufacturing program with the goal of re-engineering and aligning global business processes […]

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Business

Intro to Agile Requirements: User Stories, Backlogs and Beyond

This session from Agile 2015 shows a a common-sense approach to agile requirements that will help you reduce risk and deliver value.

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Technology

Mob Programming – My first team

As I became a member of the first real team I have ever worked on, the lessons I learned were not the ones I expected. I was the newest member […]

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Process

From Scrum to Kanban – A Team’s Journey

In the summer of 2014, my team made the decision to transition from Scrum to Kanban. After practicing Scrum for 2+ years, we found that as the nature of our […]

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Mindset

Introduction to Agile: The Genesis

What is this thing everyone calls Agile? If you have been doing software development a different way your whole career you may be wondering why should I change, and what’s […]

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Process

How long will it take? Probabilistic forecasting for math mortals

You know “collaboration over contract negotiation”, right? Metrics often drive a wedge between management/stakeholders and the team, none more so than forecasting metrics. However, when you give a probability distribution […]

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Technology

The Secret of Our DevOps Success: Fostering Human Behavioral Change

DevOps is all about continuous change and improvement. The only constant in a healthy DevOps culture is change. Conway’s Law teaches us that our systems will only change as our […]

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People

Helping Executives Become Agile Leaders: Coaching the Executive Leader

From the perspective of the professional coach, coaching executive leaders is different than most other coaching situations. With executives, you are not only a facilitator of their inner process of […]

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People

Confessions of a would-be Org Shaman: How I Learned to Trust the World to Show me the Way

What I see in the hundreds of Agile coaches and leaders I teach each year is an urge to resist the circumstances they are in, followed by attempts to overpower […]

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People

Six Rules for Change

Change is often much slower than hoped for, and more painful than anticipated. In the end, you may be left with feelings of frustration and dismay rather than the benefits […]

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Process

Three Things You MUST Know to Transform Any Sized Organization into an Agile Enterprise

The deeper we go down the path of scaled agile transformation, the more we are learning that adding additional process and additional complexity can only ever get us part of […]

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Process

How to SWITCH to Agile in the Federal Landscape

The White House has recognized the need for change in the federal government in order to efficiently address advancing technologies and to deliver value to customers by taking advantage of […]

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Process

Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

## Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) [LeSS](http://less.works) is a lightweight (agile) framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It was extracted out of the experiences of Bas Vodde and Craig […]

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People

Agile Productivity

More, faster: everybody wants that. Low productivity makes products late and expensive, frustrating both teams and customers. But what is productivity? Why is it so hard to measure? Organizations want […]

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Business

Towards A Theory & Methodology Of Test-Driven Design

Years ago, Developers had problems and devised Agile techniques to address them. Today, Designers face similar problems. Can we adopt similar techniques? In this talk, we’ll explore what automated testing […]

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People

Does this FizzGood? Improve velocity, predictability & agility by asking a simple question

LeanKit’s founding team had a strong Lean-Agile background from previous careers. So, in the early days of the company, we just instinctively did things in a Lean way with as […]

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Technology

Bill’s and Aimee’s Excellent DevOps Journey: From Roadmap to Rubber On the Road

In their presentation, “Bill and Aimee’s Excellent DevOps Journey”, Bill Donaldson (Dev) and Aimee Bechtle (Ops) will share a summary of their tumultuous journey that has resulted in 75% of […]

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People

Leading Global Teams

The agile movement got its start with small collocated teams. Sometimes we have that luxury, but for most enterprises, software development is a global operation. Tams are distributed and often […]

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